Earthquakes explained and practically improved occasioned

Use XII. Admire the sparing Mercy of God to London, more than to many Places and Cities in the World. Indeed, by this late Earthquake many Towns and Cities besides London have been shaken, and are spared; which doth not make London's deliverance to be less: for God in sparing others, might have brought London down. But compare your Mercies (for there are many in its preservation) with the Desolations brought upon many Cities in former Ages, and upon Port-Royal in Jamaica, by Earthquakes, and acknowledge God's mercy and his power in his late visitation of it, his power in shaking it, his mercy in preserving of it. Consider this Providence seriously, suffer it not to pass without due observation, and think whether you may put a greater accent upon his Power or his Mercy in this Dispensation; upon his Power in making it to tremble, or on his Mercy, that he did not make it sink or tumble down. Did God by an Earthquake shake London, and yet doth London stand? God did shake it, behold ⟨p. 118⟩his Power. It doth stand, behold his Mercy. Nay, do not you see his powerful Mercy, and his merciful Power? his powerful Mercy in shaking it, as a warning to you, and his merciful Power in keeping it from falling when it was so shaken. O write upon your Walls, however engraven it on your hearts and memories, My House was shaken with a• Earthquake, and yet it stands. London sorely threatened, and yet is spared. It is by the distinguishing Providence of God, that you have been visited in the same way as others have, and yet are not overthrown, nor swallowed up in the same manner as others are. That you may be the more sensible of, and so more thankful for God's great Mercy in sparing you in the day of his Power, I will subjoin (out of many) some few Examples o• God's sore displeasure, and his severe punishing of others by Earthquakes, (collected out of History) whereby your Mercy might be magnified in your eyes.

Ʋse XII. Admire the sparing Mercy of God to London, more than to many Places and Cities in the World. Indeed, by this late Earthquake many Towns and Cities besides London have been shaken, and are spared; which doth not make Londons deliverance to be less: for God in sparing others, might have brought London down. But compare your Mercies (for there are many in its preservation) with the Desolations brought upon many Cities in former Ages, and upon Port-Royal in Jamaica, by Earthquakes, and acknowledge God's mercy and his power in his late visitation of it, his power in shaking it, his mercy in preserving of it. Consider this Providence seriously, suffer it not to pass without due observation, and think whether you may put a greater accent upon his Power or his Mercy in this Dispensation; upon his Power in making it to tremble, or on his Mercy, that he did not make it sink or tumble down. Did God by an Earthquake shake London, and yet doth London stand? God did shake it, behold